WordPress 2.8 “Baker” out now
Posted on June 11, 2009 by by Valeri
The Popular Open Source blog application WordPress has released their newest version of their popular software called “Baker”
WordPress 2.8 Baker comes with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. They also fixed over 790 bugs.
This version is called Baker in hornor of the famous American Jazz trumpeter, fflugelhorn player and vocalist Chet Baker.
Some of the new improved features are:
- New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
- Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
- Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin
- Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns
- Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options
- Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment
- Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
- Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation
For full details visit Version 2.8
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This 2.8 upgrade include database upgrade, i got my database covered yesterday:(
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Some info on the database here http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.8
comments table : Changed comment_post_ID column to bigint(20), unsigned.
links table : Deleted link_category column.
posts table: Deleted post_category column.
term_taxonomy table: Added KEY taxonomy.
Add unsigned attribute to various bigint(20) fields.
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1st rule of upgrades….
Backup
Backup and
Backup again!
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True that….
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